| 单词 | sharecropper |
| 释义 | sharecropper noun[C] mainlyUSuk/ˈʃeəˌkrɒp.ər/us/ˈʃerˌkrɑː.pɚ/afarmerwhorentslandand who givespartof his or hercropasrent,especiallyin the past （收益分成的）佃农，佃户Farmers & farm workers
sharecropper| American Dictionarysharecropper noun[C] us/ˈʃerˌkrɑp·ər,ˈʃær-/US history amemberof alowsocialclassoffarmworkerswhoreceiveashareof thevalueof thecropand who mustpaythefarmownerforseed,tools,food, and aplacetolive sharecropper| Business Englishsharecropper noun[C] uk/ˈʃeəˌkrɒpər/usafarmerwhorentslandand who givespartof his or hercropasrentto thelandowner: Unfortunatelylandlordsarewillingtoprovidelandtopoorsharecroppers if they'llgrowpoppyon it. sharecroppingnoun[U] Sharecropping was a way oflifefor manyformerslaves. Examplesofsharecroppersharecropper In general, the region lacked a significant number of white small farmers, even of tenants and sharecroppers. From theCambridge English Corpus This incentive will be smaller for asharecropper, who would get only a half of the additional output, than for a fixed-rent tenant. From theCambridge English Corpus The old generation, born between 1915 and 1920, were mostly tenant farmers, sharecroppers, or plantation workers. From theCambridge English Corpus The landlord had to lease 210 hectares of his 318 hectares to sixty former sharecroppers under a fixed rent arrangement. From theCambridge English Corpus With inheritance, the ownerships of these landowners had grown too small to be economical, forcing them to migrate and rent the land to sharecroppers. From theCambridge English Corpus As mentioned, the two capitalist farms were seized and parceled out among former sharecroppers, farmworkers, and its two landowners. From theCambridge English Corpus Most households were sharecroppers at the same level in the village's social hierarchy and lacking any appreciable internal socio-economic differentiation. From theCambridge English Corpus The legal discourse from the classical period understood that the tenant/sharecropper/labourer was a necessary part of the functioning of the agrarian regime. From theCambridge English Corpus The majority of households use the system but sharecroppers do not. From theCambridge English Corpus The sharecroppers depended totally on the landowners for their livelihood. From theCambridge English Corpus It is misleading to argue, however, that mechanisation replaced labour and that former sharecroppers were driven by poverty to urban areas. From theCambridge English Corpus Landlords, jotedars, tenant proprietors, sharecroppers and a host of other intermediaries all claimed a part of the produce of each plot of land. From theCambridge English Corpus Once the migrant worker established his/her loyalty to the indigenous farmer, they may be contracted as sharecroppers. From theCambridge English Corpus Planters eventually acquiesced because they maintained control over crucial productive decisions : cotton is what they wanted, and cotton is what the sharecroppers grew. From theCambridge English Corpus French agriculture after 1850 would, in theory, have seen sharecroppers climb the farming ladder and switch to fixed-rent contracts. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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